QCIM — Success Factor Information Integration

The project, ‘Quality by CIM’ (QCIM), the German DIN initiative for development accompanied standardisation has produced a framework for an integrated information model which consists of a core model and specialised partial models. The modelling language and the methodology are following an object oriented approach and enable integration of application scenarios, simultaneous engineering, production control and quality management. The resulting models have been formally defined in EXPRESS. The paper gives an overview of the methodology and an application example.